Check if dictionary empty with == {}

[Skip Montanaro]

Comparison against {} will be less efficient. You need to create a
dictionary every time instead of just checking the length of your
dictionary, which is likely stored in the header. So, it will work, but
certainly isn't idiomatic Python.

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